His first “releases” under the Maggot Stomp name were enamel pins based on classics like Suffocation’s Effigy of the Forgotten and Repulsion’s Horrified. The 46-year-old Magrath’s love of death metal began in the early ’90s, and the style has now consumed more than half of his life. Fortunately, the frontman says, “No one’s been stupid enough to fuck with two big-ass dudes playing death metal in the sewer.”)
The locale tended to attract shady characters, so Johnson kept a mini Kill ‘Em All style hammer in the back of his amp, just in case. “Maggot Stomp is 100% a death metal label, but there’s definitely a punk undertone to a lot of what ’s releasing.” (To wit, that punk attitude is exemplified by Encoffinized’s sewer rehearsals. “I feel Unurnment is a more punk version of brutal death metal,” says sole member Fred Avila, also of crossover thrashers Primal Rite. A recent EP by Unurnment, Spiritual Penury, marks a modern departure from all the caveman-friendly slam whereas the rest of the roster is stuck carrying around clubs, the California group ride on crudely-made wheels-a bit more technologically advanced, but just as primal. Upcoming dumbed-down death will come from groups like Disembowel and Rotted, as well as newer ones like Kommand and Malignant Altar. It’s death metal for dummies - just getting rid of all the fat and sticking to chunky riffs, ignorant vocals, and heavy, chugging, headbanging death metal.” I had the ‘no weak shit’ tagline for a little bit, now it’s ‘caveman shit.’ It was something stupid that kind of stuck. Magrath can distill Maggot Stomp’s style into an encompassing mantra: “I threw out ‘caveman shit’ one day and people seemed to gravitate to it. Encoffinized’s Chambers of Deprivation followed as the imprint’s seventh release, in February 2019, and they’ve since become the literal face of the label-in part thanks to Johnson’s mullet, moustache, and Pit Viper sunglasses. That demo was Sin Never Dies by Grave Ascension, which label head Scott Magrath describes as “dirty” multiple times-both sonically (“the dirty, early Incantation sound”) and visually (“the dirty, gross hand-drawn logo”). He’s talking about the label they belong to, Los Angeles-based Maggot Stomp, which dropped its first release less than a year ago in August 2018. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to trackīut that’s not what Baxter means when he says, “We feel like we’re on ground zero with the whole death metal trend.”
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